George and I have a lot of things in common, for me it's like a family now. We have been through a lot especially through the long journey of "Katerina" and the three of us met Michael in "Iphigenia in Taurus". So somehow I feel that this was also an intense journey that the three of us experienced. When Michael discussed with George the possibility of doing Cyrano and they suggested the role to me I was very happy that they included me in their vision. Because I really feel that apart from being collaborators and people I value very much as artists , we are also dear friends. And even with Michael I think we have a very good stage communication. That is, the end scenes arise effortlessly and there is an emotion from both of us. It's very nice when it happens on stage without effort. It's a blessing.

Roxanne has many elements of a modern heroine even though she is written quite a long time ago. What interested me and I think George and I was interested in bringing out, apart from the fragile side that makes her charming because she is a magnet for all the men in the play, her dynamic side. I think she's a person that what she's most interested in is being loved and being loved. She wants to give herself to love. She tries to have everything under her control and organize everything, but she misses the most important thing. The person she thinks is across from her is not who she thinks he is after all. To me this is touching because we see this a lot in people's lives in general. We try to arrange everything to experience perfect happiness and in the end we may miss the most essential and important things.

For me, in an age when we all want to be perfect, when appearances and media take precedence, this play is a hymn to diversity. Its first cause is the subject matter. One person, Cyrano, is characterized by a great imperfection which unfortunately prevents him from seeing how perfect he otherwise is. But at the same time, in this age of speed, it is as if this play invites us to return to poetry. It's as if it's asking us to keep something of our romantic side alive.

For me, it's definitely missing. We live a hard and sometimes relentlessly hard everyday life. Poetry is missing and I think we need it. This is confirmed to me by the fact that young people come to see the show which is even in rhyming speech. I have to say that for me too it was not easy to make this speech my own, to have the feeling arise effortlessly through a speech so organized and poetic. I feel that we are all very lucky to be involved in theatre in one way or another. Either with books or with art in general. Because it's like our profession protects us. In order to do these professions it is necessary to maintain a romantic element. It can't be done otherwise. You have to maintain a certain innocence in a way to be able to cope with the role. I feel that the profession somehow preserves us from the harshness of the times, or at least forces us to transform it into something creative.

I'm very happy every time I work with George. There is a great generosity on his part in terms of feeling and towards the actors. He has a great openness and a light when he reads the plays. He's very charismatic. I admire him and love him very much. Also, as he matures he trusts himself and gives himself over to his primary instinct and this makes him even more creative. He is a deeply noble man with a tremendous aesthetic who everything he engages in is because it motivates him therefore it will motivate you.

The play is distinguished by so many styles. In our play I think primarily romanticism dominates, but as you go on in the play we encounter other styles that are just as strong. The first part is dominated by a comic element because of the heroes , as if they are a bit magnified by the writing and have comic characteristics (I like that a lot) . In the second part we move to a more dramatic element which is also structured in an interesting way. Just as war suddenly finds us unprepared, so in this show the war invades and subverts the very style of the show in a way.

I really don't know what the world will look like in a few years. All this alienates us, makes us more closed in on ourselves. And also it's a bit like everything is just to show off rather than to enjoy or taste. I'm scared of the violence that is all around us. We are definitely in a strange time and the new generation will have many dilemmas to face.

I really like a Bergman quote "Love is imperfect in its perfect imperfection". Because you can't say there is perfection, I think what makes us more beautiful is our uniqueness. So in a way, our imperfections also make us unique. Also maybe always having an obstacle to overcome and work through it makes you a deeper person. So having an imperfection can take you to psychic areas that if you didn't have it you wouldn't go to. Difficulty makes us more interesting. The question is how much you can accept your imperfection , to come back to Cyrano, and through it move on and not let it become an obstacle.